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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Yet another new reader. Keywd: GIRLS
Message-ID: <206@unc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 17:27:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 17:27:47 1985
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References: <tektroni.5194>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <tektroni.5194> paulh@tektronix.UUCP (Paul Hoefling) writes:
>
>>> The word "girl" has at least two meanings.  It can refer to any
>>> prepubescent female.  Also, it is often used to describe any
>>> adult female who is still young enough to be sexually attractive.
>
>FLAME ON!
>YOUNG ENOUGH ?!?!!?  What makes you think that age has anything whatever
>to do with attractiveness of *any* kind, let alone sexual ?
>Flame off
>
>>> In the second context, the word "girl" is used to avoid the negative
>>> connotations often associated with the word "woman" (one such negative
>>> connotation is a middle-age spread--check out who shops the "women's
>>> sizes" at Sears).
>
>This is *nothing* more than an advertising ploy, and I wouldn't count on it
>as any kind of reference.
>

Do you ever watch "The Benny Hill Show?"
This show illustrates well the difference between
the "girl" stereotype and the "woman" stereotype.
"Monty Python" also demonstrates my point,
although on that show the "women" are really
men in drag and the "girls" usually wear bikinis.

>>> One traditional viewpoint is that a girl becomes a woman
>>> when she has sex for the first time.
>
>Give me a break!  That has to be one of the *most* sexist definitions
>I have yet to see.

Yes, it is sexist, isn't it?

		Frank Silbermann
		University of North Carolina